CDL

1. Computer Definition [Design?] Language. A hardware

description language. "Computer Organisation and

Microprogramming", Yaohan Chu, P-H 1970.

2. Command Definition Language. Portion of ICES used to

implement commands. Sammet 1969, p.618-620.

3. Compiler Description Language. C.H.A. Koster, 1969.

Intended for implementation of the rules of an affix grammar

by recursive procedures. A procedure may be a set of

tree-structured alternatives, each alternative is executed

until one successfully exits. Used in a portable COBOL-74

compiler from MPB, mprolog system from SzKI, and the Mephisto

chess computer. "CDL: A Compiler Implementation Language", in

Methods of Algorithmic Language Implementation, C.H.A. Koster,

LNCS 47, Springer 1977, pp.341-351. "Using the CDL Compiler

Compiler", C.H.A. Koster, 1974. Versions: CDL2, CDLM used at

Manchester.

4. Common Design Language. "Common Design Language", IBM,

Software Engineering Inst, Sept 1983.

5. Control Definition Language. Ideas which contributed to

Smalltalk.

["Control Structures for Programming Languges", David

A. Fisher, PhD Thesis, CMU 1970].